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Rick Stone Trio at the Bar Next Door, Friday, May 7th, 2010 at 7:00 and 10:00PM

April 19, 2010

The Rick Stone Trio at the Bar Next Door Friday, May 7th at 7:00 & 9:00pm. Rick Stone (guitar) Sean Smith (bass) Sylvia Cuenca (drums) Friday, May 7th the Rick Stone Trio presents an evening of jazz standards and originals at the Bar Next Door. Performing with Rick will be bassist Sean ...

The Jazz Session #161: Samuel Blaser

April 19, 2010

On Pieces Of Old Sky (Clean Feed, 2009), Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser explores space and spectral harmony to great effect. In this interview, Blaser discusses the challenges of leaving space in music; his Swiss roots and how moving to New York changed his life; and several upcoming projects, including his jazz take on the music of ...

Clutchy Hopkins Video: "Verbal Headlock"

April 19, 2010

Tomasz Stanko Quintet, the European Jazz Ensemble, Performed at Birdland

April 19, 2010

Jazz Tinged With Sorrow as Well as Somber Beauty Melancholia comes naturally to the Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko. Over the last decade, especially, during a late-career renaissance Mr. Stanko, a pioneering figure in European jazz, is now 67 he has distilled his art into a tersely controlled expression of sorrow. His dark-hued trumpet tone reveals itself ...

MOJA Radio/Weekly Features: April 19-25, 2010

April 19, 2010

Monday, April 19th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on one of the most important flutists in all of jazz history, HERBIE MANN, just three days after the day that would have been his 80th birthday. You'll hear all about ...

Jazz Offerings in the Big Apple NY

April 19, 2010

New York Jazz Scene this Week GERI ALLEN QUARTET (Tuesday through Thursday) Geri Allens pianism leads a first-rate band with Ravi Coltrane on saxophones, Joe Sanders on bass and Jeff (Tain) Watts on drums. (Through April 25.) At 9 and 11 p.m. Village Vanguard ...

The Living Arts Apprenticeship Program 2010

April 18, 2010

An innovative 12 day “live-on-the-land" / cross-disciplinary arts program, located in New York's Catskill Mountains Drum-set study with Amir Ziv Aikido study with Gadi Shorr Music composition & orchestration with Jordan McLean Join Amir, Gadi & Jordan in a converted cow-barn home on 7 acres in beautiful Catskills, NY for an intensive Drumming, Aikido & Music ...

Guitarist Michael-Louis Smith to Perform at the Iridium's New Faces After Midnight Series

April 17, 2010

Guitarist and composer Michael-Louis Smith's quintet will perform at The Iridium as part of Scobar Entertainment's “New Faces After Midnight" series on Saturday May 1st. The group will appear in support of the new CD, Portrait of MLS (unreleased as of press time)and will include some of the best on the NYC jazz scene; Stacy Dillard ...

For Louis: Birdland, April 14, 2010

April 16, 2010

Its very simple.  For just about ten years, David Ostwald (tubaist-raconteur) has organized regular Wednesday jazz sessions at Birdland in midtown Manhattan, getting congenial friends together to honor Louis Armstrong.  Depending on the phase of the moon, the band is called either the GULLY LOW JAZZ BAND or the LOUIS ARMSTRONG CENTENNIAL BAND.  Names dont matter ...

George Wettling's Righteous Rage

April 16, 2010

The man in the picture looks serious, intent, but hardly dangerous. He is George Wettling known for his wonderful drumming with Eddie Condon, Max Kaminsky, Jimmy McPartland, Artie Shaw, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Ruby Braff, Pee Wee Russell, Art Hodes, and many others. In my recent, quite amiable discussion of Moldy Figs and Mossy ...